The WTF files—Jimmy Wales on Latin
The first entry on the WTF files on Linguistrix is supposedly a quote by Jimmy Wales published in today’s HT (Wikipedia woos India with local languages). I say supposedly because I really hope that this attribution is incorrect, that this is the result of stupid paraphrasing, and that Jimmy Wales didn’t actually say something so hopelessly asinine—
“In languages such as Latin, expressing an idea becomes difficult because the language is not commonly spoken and written.